Fair-weather Fowl Forecast

July 20, 1987

``The world`s largest chicken farmer`` says the future is fowl. Don Tyson, whose Springdale, Ark.-based poultry empire has processing plants in 12 states, predicts that within three years the average U.S. meat-eater will consume more chicken than beef. Last year, the average American ate 80 pounds of beef, 75 pounds of chicken and 65 pounds of pork. But chicken consumption is expected to climb by 8 percent this year, with half the increase coming from processed chicken products. Tyson said recent exposes on unsanitary conditions at some chicken processing plants had not effected Tyson Foods`